dead simple Twitter client based on Node.js

twitter_client_reader_node.js

/**
*
*  Base64 encode / decode
*  http://www.webtoolkit.info/
*
**/
 
var Base64 = {
 
	// private property
	_keyStr : "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=",
 
	// public method for encoding
	encode : function (input) {
		var output = "";
		var chr1, chr2, chr3, enc1, enc2, enc3, enc4;
		var i = 0;
 
		input = Base64._utf8_encode(input);
 
		while (i < input.length) {
 
			chr1 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
			chr2 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
			chr3 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
 
			enc1 = chr1 >> 2;
			enc2 = ((chr1 & 3) << 4) | (chr2 >> 4);
			enc3 = ((chr2 & 15) << 2) | (chr3 >> 6);
			enc4 = chr3 & 63;
 
			if (isNaN(chr2)) {
				enc3 = enc4 = 64;
			} else if (isNaN(chr3)) {
				enc4 = 64;
			}
 
			output = output +
			this._keyStr.charAt(enc1) + this._keyStr.charAt(enc2) +
			this._keyStr.charAt(enc3) + this._keyStr.charAt(enc4);
 
		}
 
		return output;
	},
 
	// public method for decoding
	decode : function (input) {
		var output = "";
		var chr1, chr2, chr3;
		var enc1, enc2, enc3, enc4;
		var i = 0;
 
		input = input.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9\+\/\=]/g, "");
 
		while (i < input.length) {
 
			enc1 = this._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
			enc2 = this._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
			enc3 = this._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
			enc4 = this._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
 
			chr1 = (enc1 << 2) | (enc2 >> 4);
			chr2 = ((enc2 & 15) << 4) | (enc3 >> 2);
			chr3 = ((enc3 & 3) << 6) | enc4;
 
			output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr1);
 
			if (enc3 != 64) {
				output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr2);
			}
			if (enc4 != 64) {
				output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr3);
			}
 
		}
 
		output = Base64._utf8_decode(output);
 
		return output;
 
	},
 
	// private method for UTF-8 encoding
	_utf8_encode : function (string) {
		string = string.replace(/\r\n/g,"\n");
		var utftext = "";
 
		for (var n = 0; n < string.length; n++) {
 
			var c = string.charCodeAt(n);
 
			if (c < 128) {
				utftext += String.fromCharCode(c);
			}
			else if((c > 127) && (c < 2048)) {
				utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 6) | 192);
				utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
			}
			else {
				utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 12) | 224);
				utftext += String.fromCharCode(((c >> 6) & 63) | 128);
				utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
			}
 
		}
 
		return utftext;
	},
 
	// private method for UTF-8 decoding
	_utf8_decode : function (utftext) {
		var string = "";
		var i = 0;
		var c = c1 = c2 = 0;
 
		while ( i < utftext.length ) {
 
			c = utftext.charCodeAt(i);
 
			if (c < 128) {
				string += String.fromCharCode(c);
				i++;
			}
			else if((c > 191) && (c < 224)) {
				c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
				string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 31) << 6) | (c2 & 63));
				i += 2;
			}
			else {
				c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
				c3 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+2);
				string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 15) << 12) | ((c2 & 63) << 6) | (c3 & 63));
				i += 3;
			}
 
		}
 
		return string;
	}
 
}


////Twitter Code begins from here

var http = require("http"),
	sys = require("sys");
var connection = http.createClient(80, "twitter.com");
var since_id = '';
var interval = 0;
function getTweets()	{
	var url = "/statuses/friends_timeline.json";
	if (since_id != '')	{
		url += "?since_id=" + since_id;
	}
	var request = connection.get(url, {
		"content-type": "application/json", 
		"User-Agent": "NodeJS HTTP Client by Infynyxx", 
		"host": "twitter.com",
		"Authorization": "Basic " + Base64.encode("infynyxx:*****")
	});
	request.finish(function(response)	{
		var responseBody = "";
		response.setBodyEncoding("utf8");
		response.addListener("body", function(chunk)	{
			responseBody += chunk;
		});
		response.addListener("complete", function()	{			
			var tweets = JSON.parse(responseBody);
			if (tweets.error)	{
				sys.puts("Error: " + tweets.error);
			}
			else	{				
				var length = tweets.length;
				if (length > 0)	{
					sys.puts("Getting new tweets...\n");
					sys.puts("Number of new tweets: " + length + "\n");
					var str = "";
					tweets.reverse();
					tweets.forEach(function(element, index) {
						str += element.text + "\n";
						str += element.user.name + "\n";;
						str += element.created_at + "\n";;
						str += "*************************\n";
					});
					sys.puts(str);	
				}
			}
		});		
	});
	setTimeout(getTweets, interval);	
	interval = 300000;  //5 minutes
}

getTweets();